Prevalence of antibodies to HTLV in antenatal clinic attenders in South East London

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 326-329

  Hale, Antony ^a,b   Leung, Teresa ^a   Sivasubramaniam, Sivakumar ^a   Kenny, Julie ^a   Sutherland, Sheena ^a  

^a Dulwich Community Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Screening test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL CARE; SCREENING TEST; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; DELTARETROVIRUS ANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONDON; PREVALENCE;

HTLV; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 2;

EID: 0030829405     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199707)52:3<326::AID-JMV15>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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